| James Peirce - 1717 - 638 páginas
...and flexible our Adverfaries can be upon occafion. However rugged they have fhewn themfelves toward the Diflenters ; yet they can be as tame and pliable...to a Court, when they have any ends to ferve by it. But now let us hear why the Bifhops could do nothing: For there [in the Court] all endeavours for accommodation,... | |
| Henry Newland - 1829 - 276 páginas
..." The Bishops," says Mr. Pierce, " how" ever rigid they have shown themselves to " the Dissenters, yet they can be as tame and " pliable as may be to a court, when they have " any ends to serve by it."—p. 227. " If our Clergy did not gape after great " honors and fat benefices, they would... | |
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